# Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15. The basketball competition was held at three venues: Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre in Townsville for the preliminaries and the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast for the finals. This was the second time that the basketball competition was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams from a total of eleven nations competed (192 athletes, at 12 per team) in each respective tournament.

## Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the basketball competitions: The final schedule was released on August 29, 2017.
| P | Pool stage | QF | Qualifying finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze Medal Match | F | Gold Medal Match |
| Event↓/Date → | Thu 5 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | Sun 8 | Mon 9 | Tue 10 | Wed 11 | Thu 12 | Fri 13 | Sat 14 | Sat 14 | Sun 15 | Sun 15 |
| Men | P | P | P | P | P | QF | | | | ½ | ½ | B | F |
| Women | P | P | P | P | P | QF | | | ½ | B | F | | |

## Venues

Three venues in Queensland were used. All seat 5,000 for the basketball competitions.
| Gold Coast | Cairns | Gold CoastCairnsTownsville | Townsville |
| Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre | Cairns Convention Centre | Gold CoastCairnsTownsville | Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre |
| Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 5,000 | Gold CoastCairnsTownsville | Capacity: 5,000 |

## Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games. Each nation may enter one team in each tournament (12 athletes per team) for a maximum total of 24 athletes. At least four out of the six Commonwealth regions were considered to be represented in each tournament, if possible. For the home nations, each country may compete, however the ranking of Great Britain was given to the home nation with the most players on the team. In this instance its unknown which team was used to determine that. For the purpose below England is attributed the rankings spot and Scotland is noted as being invited
The teams were officially confirmed on July 28, 2017.

## Men's competition
### Qualified teams

| Event | Date | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Nation | — | 1 | Australia |
| Best Commonwealth Teams in the FIBA World Rankings | 1 July 2017 | 3 | Nigeria New Zealand Canada |
| CGF/FIBA invitation | 7 July 2017 | 4 | England Scotland Cameroon India |
| Total | | 8 | |

## Women’s competition
### Qualified teams

| Event | Date | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Nation | — | 1 | Australia |
| Best Commonwealth Teams in the FIBA World Rankings | 1 July 2017 | 3 | Canada England Mozambique |
| CGF/FIBA invitation | 7 July 2017 | 4 | Jamaica New Zealand India Malaysia |
| Total | | 8 | |

## Participating nations

There are 11 participating nations at the basketball competitions with a total of 192 athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.
* Australia (24)
* Cameroon (12)
* Canada (24)
* England (24)
* India (24)
* Jamaica (12)
* Malaysia (12)
* Mozambique (12)
* New Zealand (24)
* Nigeria (12)
* Scotland (12)

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | England | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Australia (AUS) Lucas Walker Cameron Gliddon Chris Goulding Jason Cadee Mitch Norton Nick Kay Brad Newley Daniel Kickert Angus Brandt Damian Martin Nathan Sobey Jesse Wagstaff | Canada (CAN) Ammanuel Diressa Jean Pierre-Charles Justus Alleyn Mamadou Gueye Jean-Victor Mukama Munis Tutu Grant Shephard Mambi Diawara David Kapinga Conor Morgan Erik Nissen Michael Shoveller | New Zealand (NZL) Reuben Te Rangi Finn Delany Shea Ili Jarrod Kenny Mika Vukona Derone Raukawa Thomas Abercrombie Robert Loe Tohi Smith-Milner Jordan Ngatai Ethan Rusbatch Alex Pledger |
| Women details | Australia (AUS) Jenna O'Hea Tessa Lavey Stephanie Talbot Stephanie Blicavs Liz Cambage Kelsey Griffin Katie-Rae Ebzery Belinda Snell Ezi Magbegor Cayla George Alice Kunek Nicole Seekamp | England (ENG) Melita Emanuel-Carr Nicolette Fong Lyew Quee Siobhan Prior Stef Collins Rachael Vanderwal Georgia Jones Hannah Shaw Eilidh Simpson Mollie Campbell Chantelle Pressley Azania Stewart Dominique Allen | New Zealand (NZL) Zara Jillings Erin Rooney Micaela Cocks Kalani Purcell Jordan Hunter Antonia Farnworth Natalie Taylor Chevannah Paalvast Jessica Bygate Josephine Stockill Deena Franklin Charlisse Leger-Walker |